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From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Re: Apple //x
Message-ID: <699@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-May-86 18:30:14 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 31 18:30:14 1986
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Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland
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Summary: deja vu

(Dave Haynie) writes:
>
>6502 and 68000 in one chip?  You've GOT to be kidding!  Even if you could 
>find a silicon house with the rights to both processors, it would be so much
>simpler to have separate 6502 and 68000 processors on the board that you
>couldn't possibly justify the added expense of developing a dual part.  Or
>look at it this way, 6502 family chips these days cost less than $1.00, and
>to hook one up to share a bus with a 68000 would require almost no glue
>logic.  
>[ notes about the desirability of the 65816]
>-- 
>Dave Haynie    {caip,inhp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh

But gee, Dave, 6502 and 68k in the same box?  Then we'd have the Ohio
Scientific C-3 all over again, now wouldn't we?  :-)

-dave
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